The Beach At Night By Elena Ferrante
Readers familiar with ferrante s adult novella the lost daughter will recognise the bones of this story in that one.
The beach at night by elena ferrante. The beach at night is a deceptive book that pretends to be a book for kids and can scare the bejesus out of you. Accidentally left at the beach by a five year old girl named mati a doll endures a disturbing night by the sea in pseudonymous novelist ferrante s nominal first children s book. This is told in the traditional sense of a fairy tale for kids but goes deeper than that. Forgotten by her owner mati celina must spend the night facing the solitude and terrors of an unfamiliar world all while.
The beach at night is a picture book for young readers by italian author elena ferrante. Celina is having a terrible night one full of jealousy for the new kitten feelings of abandonment and sadness misadventures at the hands of the beach attendant and dark dreams. The story is narrated by celina a doll who also appeared in ferrante s novel the lost daughter. It is a macabre story of a doll and has several hints of terror.
Celina is having a terrible night one full of jealousy for the new kitten minĂ¹ feelings of abandonment and sadness misadventures at the hands of the beach attendant and dark dreams. The beach at night is a short moving and mysterious tale for future and present readers of ferrante s beloved novels. The beach at night europa is elena ferrante s children s fable first published in italian almost a decade ago. Europa editions which is.
With the beach at night elena ferrante returns to a story that animated the novel she considers to be a turning point in her development as a writer. But this time the tale takes the form of a children s fable told from the point of view of the lost stolen doll celina. Translated beautifully and uncompromisingly by ann goldstein the beach at night is a dark tale with a complex girl doll heroine and malevolent baddie for brave little readers classic elena for beginners and their ferrante fevered parents times of london this text refers to an alternate kindle edition edition.